The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-07
THE QUEENS OF HOME.
REV. Or. TAlMAGE breaches AT
THE HAMPTONS.

Woman Has the Special Right to Com
fort the Sick, to Care for the Poor and
to Solicit Embellishments shonId
Conhde Their Troubles to Their Wives.
THE HAMPToSs, Sept. 4.-The Rev. DIR.
T. De Witt Talmage text today was from
Solomon's Song, Vi, 8: There are three
score queens. Following is the sermon
III full:
SO Solomon, by one stroke, set forth
the imperial character Of a true Christian
woman. She is not a slave, not a hire
ling, not a subordinate, but queen: and
in my text solomon sees si-ty of these
helping 10 make up the royal pageant u
Jesus. In former sermon / showed YOU
that crown and cOurtly attendants, and
imperial wardrobe were not necessary to
make a queen; but that graces Of the
heart and life will give coronation to any
woman. | showed you at some length
that woman's position was higher in the
world than mans. and that although she
had often been denied the right Of suf-
frage, she always did vote and always
would vote by her influence; and that
her chief desire ought TO be that she
should have grace rightly TO rule III the
dominion which she has already won.
began an enumeration of some Of her
rights, and this morning resume the sub
jet
In the first place, woman has a special
and superlative right-nOt again going
back to what have already said woman
has the special and superlative right of
blessing and comforting the sick.
What land, what street, what house
has not felt the smitings Of disease? Tens
Of thousands of sick beds. What shall
we do with them: Shall man, with his
rough hand and clumsy foot go STUN
bling around the sick room trying to
soothe the distracted nerves. and allevi-
ate the pains Of the tossing patient? The
young man at college may scott at the
idea of being under maternal influences;
but at the first blast of the typhoid fever
on his cheek, he says; "Where is moth
err Walter Scott wrote partly in satire
and partly in compliment when he said;
woman, in ours Of ease,
Uncertain. coy and hard 10 please.
When pain aud anguish wiring the brow,
ministering angel thou.
think the most pathetic passage Of all
the Bible is the description of the lad
WHO went OUT 10 itlt harvest Dtlu Oh
Shunem and got Observation-Disclosures
his hands on his temples and crying out:
ION, my headl my headr' and they
said: Garry him to his mother" And
then the record is: He sat on her knees
gill noon, and then died. 1t is an awful
thing TO be i'll away from home in q
strange hotel, once in while men com
ing in to look at you, holding their hand
over their mouth for fear they will catch
the contagiou. How roughly they turn
you in bed. How loudly they talk. How
you long for the ministries of home.
knew one such who went away from one
of the brightest Of homes, for severa
weeks business absence at the west
A telegram came at midnight thai
he was on his death bed, far away
from home. BY express train the wife
and daughters went westward, hui
they went too late. He feared not L
die, but he was in an agony to live unit
his family got there. He tried to brib,
the doctor TO make him live little Will,
longer. He said: II am willing to die
but not alone. But the pulses fluttered
the eyes closed and the heart stopped
The express trains met in the midnight
wife and daughters going westward
lifeless remains of husband and fathe
coming eastward Oh. il was a sad, pitt
full. overwhelming spectacle! When W,
are sick we want To be sick at home
when the time comes for us to die ".
want to die at home The room NAV b,
very humble, and the faces that look int,
ours may be very plain; but who care
or that? Loving hands to battle tn,
temples. Loving voices to speak gooC
cheer. Loving lips TO read the comfort
ing promises of Jesus In our last dread
full war, men cast the cannon; men fash
Toned the musketry; men cried to tn,
hosts: Forward, march!' men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges of tn,
enemy. crying: Charge! charged bu
woman scraped the lint; woman admins
tered the cordials; woman watched b,
the dying couch; woman wrote the las
message to the home circle; woman wep
at the solitary burial attended by herseI
and four men with spade. We greete,
the general home with brass bands, ane
triumphal arches, and wild huzzas; but tn,
story is too good to be written anywhere
save in the chronicles of heaven, O
Mrs. Brady who came down among tn,
sick in the swamps of the Chickahominy
of Margaret Breckenridge, who came t,
men who had been for weeks with thei
wounds undressed some of them frozei
30 the ground, and when she turne,
them over those that had an arm lief
waved it and filed the air with thei
'.hurrah;" of Mrs. Hodge, who cam
from Chicago with blankets and witt
pillows, until the men shouted: '.Thre
cheers for the Christian commission
God bless the women at home.'' the
sitting down to take the last message
''Tell my wife not TO fret about me. bu
to meet me in heaven; tell her to train u
the BOYS whom we have loved so well
tell her we shall meet again in the GOO
land; tell her to bear my loss like tn
Christian wife of Christian soldier;
and of Mrs. Shelton, into whose face tn
convalescent soldier looked and said
.sYour grapes and cologne cured me.
Men did their work with shot and she
and carbine and howitzer; women di
thar work with socks and slippers an
bandages and warm drinks and Scriptur
texts and gentle stockings of the he
temples and stories of that land wher
they never have any pain. Men knel
down over the wounded and said: 20
which side did You fight Wome
knelt down over the wounded and said
'.Where are you hurt? What nice thin
can make for you TO eat? What make
you cry." Tonight while we men ar
sound asleep in our beds, there will be
light in yonder loft: there will be groan
ing down that dark alley; there will
cries of distress in that cellar. Men wi
sleep. and women will watch.
Again. woman has superlative RICH
10 take care of the poor There ar
hundreds and thousands of them all owe
the land There is a kind of work tina
men cannot do for the .poer-~ Here come
group of very little bare foot chiidre,
to the door of the Dorcas society. The,
need to be clothed and provided for
Which of these directors of banks woult
know how many yards il would take Il
make that little girl a dress: Which o.
these masculine hands could fit hat t.
that little girls head? Which of the wis
men would know how to tie that new
pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his
charity in a rough way, and it falls
like the fruit OF a tree in the east, which
fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks
the skull OF the man who is trying to
gather it. But woman glides so softly
into the house of destitution, and finds
oAe go eic noAAu"S "a tue pace, ana puts
so quietly the donation on the table, that
all the family come out ON the front steps
as she departs, expecting that from under
her shawl she viii thrust out two wings
and go right up toward heaven, from
whence she seems to have come down.
. Christian young woman, if you
would make yourself happy and win
the blessing of Christ, go out among
the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bum
die Of socks may make homely load to
carry, but the angels Of God will come
out TO watch, and the Lord Almighty